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Fair Housing Center Releases Report Examining Access to Home Improvement Loans in Cuyahoga County

May 24, 2024Latest News, Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 24, 2024 Contact: Austin Cummings, Phone: 216-306-2542, Email: acummings@thehousingcenter.org Cleveland, OH – Today, The Fair Housing Center released a first-of-its-kind report examining access to home improvement loans in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Using Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data, we examine individual and neighborhood-level outcomes for home improvement loans between 2019 and 2022. During […]

Remodeling Inequities: Analyzing Geographic Trends in Home Improvement Loans in Cuyahoga County

May 25, 2023Blog, Latest News

By Austin Cummings, Research Associate “Financial violence is racial violence: geographies of housing financialization spatialize hierarchies of death-dealing difference.” – Desire Fields and Elora Lee Raymond (2021). Racialized geographies of housing financialization. Progress in Human Geography. Vol.45(6) 1625-1645. DOI: 10.1177/03091132521009299. Home improvement, repair, and update projects serve a number of purposes. They help households increase […]

Analyzing Disparities in Access to Home Improvement Loans in Cuyahoga County

February 27, 2023Blog, Latest News

By Austin Cummings, Research Associate Put simply, the market penalizes integration: The higher the percentage of Blacks in the neighborhood, the less the home is worth, even when researchers control for age, social class, household structure, and geography. Dorothy A. Brown, “Homeownership in Black and White: The Role of Tax Policy in Increasing Housing Inequity” […]

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Fair Housing Center Releases Report Examining Access to Home Improvement Loans in Cuyahoga County

Remodeling Inequities: Analyzing Geographic Trends in Home Improvement Loans in Cuyahoga County

Analyzing Disparities in Access to Home Improvement Loans in Cuyahoga County

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